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What Star Wars plotlines would you like to see explored in the EU novels?
Personally I'd like a novel series on Palpatine's background, and how he became a Sith Lord.
Personally I'd like a novel series on Palpatine's background, and how he became a Sith Lord.
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I'd love to see a book like that, maybe one with a little backstory on Darth Plagueis...oh wait...damn now I am sad. One of the best SW books never written.
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I would love to read a story similar to Marvels. As in you follow a normal civilian family in the mid rim having to deal with all the normal things a middle-class family goes though. Plus their POV of all the big galactic events starting right before Episode 1 and ending post Yuuzhan Vong war. All the family members are just simple folks, no Jedi, no criminals, no Imperial, no Rebel, no big player, just common as dirt folks.
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If they're average people probably at least one of them gets drafted into the Imperial military. Still it would be interesting to see everyday life in the Star Wars Galaxy.Seele wrote:I would love to read a story similar to Marvels. As in you follow a normal civilian family in the mid rim having to deal with all the normal things a middle-class family goes though. Plus their POV of all the big galactic events starting right before Episode 1 and ending post Yuuzhan Vong war. All the family members are just simple folks, no Jedi, no criminals, no Imperial, no Rebel, no big player, just common as dirt folks.
As another idea, how about a novel of politics in the Galactic Senate between the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones?
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This has always bothered me that there was essentially nothing written about the rise of the Seperatists other than the holonetnews articles. All we really know about the rise of the Seperatists is told in AOTC. It is too bad that The Approaching Storm was written instead of something more like Cloak of Deception or Labyrinth of Evil.General Mung Beans wrote: As another idea, how about a novel of politics in the Galactic Senate between the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones?
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I would like to see something similar, because they really don't seem get into the arms buildups that had to have happened before the Clone Wars, apart from TPM with the Trade Federation.Adamskywalker007 wrote:This has always bothered me that there was essentially nothing written about the rise of the Seperatists other than the holonetnews articles. All we really know about the rise of the Seperatists is told in AOTC. It is too bad that The Approaching Storm was written instead of something more like Cloak of Deception or Labyrinth of Evil.
Then again I haven't read many EU novels anyways.
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A book centered around an Imperial Army soldier, one who belongs to a squad/unit/whatever that doesn't commit random evil killings.
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Allegiance by Tim Zahn. A very good book IMHO.Darth Ruinus wrote:A book centered around an Imperial Army soldier, one who belongs to a squad/unit/whatever that doesn't commit random evil killings.
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I'm still hoping that Luceno novel eventually sees the light of day.Darth Fanboy wrote:I'd love to see a book like that, maybe one with a little backstory on Darth Plagueis...oh wait...damn now I am sad. One of the best SW books never written.
I'd love to see a revival of the "Tales of the..." books that Bantam did, especially an anthology on the Yuuzhan Vong War. So many potential stories from that era to tap...
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I'd like to see some more novels set very early in the Old Republic, before the KOTOR period and possibly around the foundation-time of both the Jedi and the first iteration of said Republic.
Other than that, I like the idea of "average soldier or officer" from, say, the Mid Rim, and getting to see part of the Clone Wars from his/her perspective.
Other than that, I like the idea of "average soldier or officer" from, say, the Mid Rim, and getting to see part of the Clone Wars from his/her perspective.
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I want more stories about random unimportant people DOING shit. But not like the Tales of series, I want none of the characters from the films or shows, unrelated to the major events, just people trying to make their own way. Like the Han Solo and Lando books, but not starring either.
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A story with Revan's child (the mmo is pointing to his having one.)
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I want more books involving characters from all blocks of life, from any time period. Let's have a series set during the height of the Old Republic, showing us how the OR functioned. Or perhaps a series which explores the lives of the common soldier (of any side!). Also, I'd like to see a novel from the point of view of a some one enlisted in either the Republic or Imperial Navy. Just no more books about the Solo kids or Han & Leia.... They've exhausted those characters ad nauseam.
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I think the Invasion comic is headed in that direction. Is the entire comic run going to be focused on that Jedi candidate from the Conquered planet, or are they going to tell someone else's story once his arc is done?JME2 wrote:Darth Fanboy wrote:
I'd love to see a revival of the "Tales of the..." books that Bantam did, especially an anthology on the Yuuzhan Vong War. So many potential stories from that era to tap...
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Tom Kratman's take on the Yuuzhan Vong War.General Mung Beans wrote:What Star Wars plotlines would you like to see explored in the EU novels?
Seriously, the "Siege of Coruscant" story as it stands in caon is like cut out of one of the Posleen books, complete with totally idiotic political liberal strawmen (although Denning probably did not do it on purpose) and vicious traitors who sell out their fellow men to omnicidal alien horrors because. It would probably have been better if Kratman wrote it and added some overwanked, right-wing troops calling the NR politicos on their bullshit.
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I'd rather not have a bigot in the franchise.
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Are you kidding me? With the way the EU has handled Palpatine, you really think this book would be good?Darth Fanboy wrote:I'd love to see a book like that, maybe one with a little backstory on Darth Plagueis...oh wait...damn now I am sad. One of the best SW books never written.
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Oh man, I hate to burst your bubble, but I can pretty much guarantee there are already bigots in the franchise. Probably worse.Darth Yan wrote:I'd rather not have a bigot in the franchise.
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I don't know, I'd kind of like to see a sequel to Dark Lord (still my favorite EU novel). It could follow up on some of the surviving characters and what happens to them. Which reminds me, a novel about Chewbacca's life before he meets Han could be interesting.
I'll second something about Plagues, and something on Revan's child perhaps. As for Havok's suggestion that a Plagueis novel would be bad, I have to say it depends on the author, which goes for any book ever written.
I'll second something about Plagues, and something on Revan's child perhaps. As for Havok's suggestion that a Plagueis novel would be bad, I have to say it depends on the author, which goes for any book ever written.
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Ground-pounder stuff--battles from the perspectives of stormies, rebel troopers, or other such grunts would be something I'd like. Too much of the books are saturated with Jedi stuff.
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Yeah, but how about one where they don't defect? Which isn't to knock on Allegiance because I agree it is a very good book.Darth Fanboy wrote:Allegiance by Tim Zahn. A very good book IMHO.Darth Ruinus wrote:A book centered around an Imperial Army soldier, one who belongs to a squad/unit/whatever that doesn't commit random evil killings.
I would be interested in seeing a Rebel (or even a rebel...apparently there's a difference) who isn't totally sweetness and light in the way they fight the Empire. They kinda did it with Bria Tharen in Crispen's Han Solo trilogy, but that's the only example I can think of. And yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing some regular Army grunt (not Stormtroopers) who isn't evil because A) I think it'd counteract the 'All Imperials twirl their moustaches and kick puppies' from the Bantam years, B) reinforce that hey, there is an Imperial Army that isn't Stormtroopers (!) after all (The Empire comics have done this, too, as did Zahn in TTT), and C) it does make the galaxy-wide conflict a little more real if there are a bit more shades of gray when it comes to the individual of each side. Even if we know that, on the whole, Empire = Bad and Rebels = Good.
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Except the troopers in Allegiance didn't defect so much as they deserted.
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I'd like to see a novel revolving around an Imperial commander that hasn't gotten too much exposure in the OT-era EU, like say Rom Mohc (a pretty badass soldier in his own right) or Wullf Yularen (thanks to TCW, we can now have stories about his duel identity as a military officer and an ISB flunkie).
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He'd probably be an Imperial though-maybe Pellaeon?Darth Hoth wrote:
Tom Kratman's take on the Yuuzhan Vong War.
Seriously, the "Siege of Coruscant" story as it stands in caon is like cut out of one of the Posleen books, complete with totally idiotic political liberal strawmen (although Denning probably did not do it on purpose) and vicious traitors who sell out their fellow men to omnicidal alien horrors because. It would probably have been better if Kratman wrote it and added some overwanked, right-wing troops calling the NR politicos on their bullshit.
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Wait. What bigots in the franchise are there? Also, Luceno is genereally a good author. And not everything EU about palp is evil; the way it gave him psuedo altruistic justification actually made him more of a monster, since it turned him from a corrupt mass murdering monster to an ELITIST corrupt mass murdering monster.